Вот не полный список новых возможностей... который, возможно .... обрадует Вас ...

Informix - "Cheetah" ....

1. HDR Encrypted Communications between Servers
2. Improving Checkpoint Performance and Tuning Failure Recovery Time
3. Automatic LRU Tuning
4. Automatic AIO VP Tuning
5. Moving the Physical Log online
6. Automatic Checkpoint
7. New SYSMASTER Tables: ... syscheckpoint (Keeps history on the last 20 checkpoints)
.....sysckptinfo (Keeps info on automatic checkpoints)
8. Optimistic Concurrency
9. Improved Statistics Maintenance
10. Admin Commands .... (что-то типа EXECUTE FUNCTION admin('create dbspace','dbspace2',‘$INFORMIXDIR/SPACE/dbspace2',`20MB`);
)
11.and so on

Ждем-с выхода ... :)